Each project will be approximately 2-5 pages in length and required to be typed (double-spaced).

Option 1:  Giving back to the community is often an essential part of doing business in a community.  For your project interview your mentor to see how the company gives back to the community, what community service projects and/or charities the company contributes to, does the company require employees to participate/contribute and why does the company participate in community service.  Then write a two to five page paper describing what community service is, discussing the interview, and what community service projects you have participated in throughout your high school career.

Option 2:  Write about your first full-time search.  Describe the steps you would take when making a career decision (work experiences and education): whom you would contact, what paper work is required, what preparation is needed and how to interview successfully.  Student should outline and describe positive elements of completing a successful job interview.

Option 3:  Interview your mentor and one other professional in the same field. Write a report on the two interviews.  Ask the following questions and more if possible:
1. Why did you decide to go into this field?
2. Describe the career path you followed to get where you are today.
3. What educational experience and/or training have you had?
4. Describe some of your personal strengths and weaknesses that have helped or hindered you along the way.
5. Is this career field growing? And if so can you give future predictions for its growth in both economical and geographical terms?
6. What community and government forces affect this business?
7. Please describe your typical day at work (that is, if there is such as think)?
8. Are there any problems that are particularly stressful that you deal with an ongoing basis at work?
9. What is your greatest feeling of success that's related to your work?
10. What advice do you have for me, both as an intern, and for my future in this field?
11. What starting salary could I expect?
12. Students will complete a thank you letter to be sent to a job interviewer.

Option 3:  Attend a professional meeting with your mentor and describe it on paper.  Discuss this assignment in advance with your mentor.  Perhaps if a business meeting is impossible, you could attend a Rotary, Board of Education Meeting, or a civic meeting (Greater Greenwich Chamber of Commerce).

Option 4:  Describe work habits that are most desirable in an employee (discuss this with your mentor and include his/her remarks).